Executives with Cape Wind have long acknowledged
that the 130-turbine project they plan for Nantucket
Sound would be a non-starter without the subsidy,
known as the production tax credit, or PTC.
Introducing the bill Friday on the floor of the
Senate, Alexander offered a blistering critique
of wind as a viable energy source.
''My studies suggest that at a time when America
needs large amounts of low-cost, reliable power,
wind produces puny amounts of high-cost,
unreliable power,'' said Alexander. ''We need
lower prices. Wind power production raises prices.''
Senator Alexander for some reason feels more potential sources of power some how will raise prices. competition usally has allot of sources making prices lower.
but this bill primarily targets wind farms around areas like Cape Cod where i am sure Alexander and co-sponsor Warner summer
Alexander said Americans would see 100,000 massive
turbines along their horizons by 2025 if the federal
government continued the PTC and pursued an overall
goal of producing 10 percent of its electricity
from renewable sources.
''Clearly, there are likely to be more sensible
ways to provide clean energy than spending $3.7
billion of taxpayer money over the next five years
to destroy the American landscape,'' he said.
ummmm Wind isn't the only renewable source of electrical energy
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is currently leading
a multiagency review of Cape Wind and last November
released its 3,800-page Draft Environmental Impact
Statement, which was generally favorable to the
project. The final version of the report could be
released by the end of the summer.
Last fall, Warner sought to slip language into a
military appropriations bill that would have stripped
the Corps of its authority over offshore wind.
Yesterday, a spokesman for Warner did not return
a call seeking comment.
Now the US Army Corp of Engineers has done allot of stupid things, but to cut them off at the knees to prevent them from studying a problem.. that just shows some avarice on your part there
Fallout from Cape Wind was partly to blame for the
legislation, she said.
''When you have two leading U.S. senators filing
legislation that stops all offshore wind, there
has to be a reason. And the reason is Cape Wind is
the pre-eminent offshore wind project in this
country. It's following a flawed review process
in a regulatory vacuum and it's coming home to roost.''
The Alexander-Warner bill would also expand the
power of local officials to weigh in on wind
power projects. Before receiving a construction
permit from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
for a permit, developers in many cases would first
have to secure what's called a Local Approval
Authorization, according to the legislation.
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Attorney General
Thomas Reilly and others have long complained
they have little oversight over the Cape Wind
project because its developer plans to site it
in federal waters.
yes more intelligent use of government power here
No comments:
Post a Comment